About Recall: The
project Recall aims to open a platform to reflect and explore the
fundamental flaw in the construction of memories through processing and
recollection, based on sound or visual compositions. The project’s goal
is to allow the act of recall to be executed in a live performance
setting, where these elements can be further contemplated.Recall
consists of three projects to perform a set in which memory is
activated, not as a true recreation of the moment, but rather a
distorted construction of the experience.

The
first project is a collaboration between Amanda Gutierrez and Anthony
Janas entitled Aunties. This case focuses on the personal story of two
sisters who live in Chicago and its visual analogy with two sisters who
live in Mexico City. These relationships seek to emphasize the
reflections of middle class women, evident in their oral histories and
the spaces they inhabit. The video and sound techniques open the
possibility for formal constructions, using metaphors resolved as an
abstract portrait.

Is a live performance collaboration between audio group The Fortieth Day and video artist Lisa Slodki.

The
Fortieth Day is the duo of Isidro Reyes and Mark Solotroff, both key
players in the heavy-electronics outfit BLOODYMINDED, a band known for
its aggressive and confrontational live shows. Solotroff is also known
as the vocalist in the doom/shoegaze band Anatomy of Habit. In The
Fortieth Day, Reyes and Solotroff utilize guitar, bass, drum machine,
and analog synthesizer to create epic, blackened, psychedelic-industrial
drone soundscapes, likened to "sustained, withering blasts of
high-pitched noise that are as distinct from one another as spotlights
sweeping across the night sky; jackhammer clatter, jet-engine whines,
and forlorn keyboard melodies dart in and out of those huge sounds with
the grace and impunity of plovers picking a crocodile's teeth" [Bill
Meyer, Chicago Reader]

Lisa
Slodki creates real-time performances and installations, often working
in collaboration with the Chicago experimental audio and noise
communities. Performing with The Fortieth Day under her Noise Crush
moniker, Slodki generates VHS tape loops which are mixed live through a
battery of VCRs to construct evolving projected superimpositions.
Pulsating light of decaying VHS tape and manipulated found footage
conjure familiar yet indiscernible images, engaging with the fragility
of both medium and memory.